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In Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960 , Neil S. Oatsvall examines how top officials in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations used environmental science to develop nuclear strategy at the beginning of the Cold War. While many people were involved in research and analysis during the period in question, it was at highest levels of executive decision-making where environmental science and nuclear science most clearly combined to shape the nation’s policies. Oatsvall clearly demonstrates how the natural world and the scientific disciplines that study it became integral parts of nuclear science rather than adversarial fields of knowledge. But while nuclear technologies heavily depended on environmental science to develop, those same technologies frequently caused great harm to the natural world. Moreover, while some individuals expressed real anxieties about the damage wrought by nuclear technologies, policymakers as a class consistently made choices that privileged nuclear boosterism and secrecy, prioritizing institutional values over the lives and living systems that they were ostensibly charged to protect. By scrutinizing ins
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- Author
- Neil Shafer Oatsvall
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817394349
- Category
- nonfiction
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